Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.